Title: How well is Denmark doing against international commitments for protected areas? Presenter: Professor Neil Burgess, CMEC Head of Science – UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre CENTER FOR MACROECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND CLIMATE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
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Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate
University of Copenhagen
Title: How well is Denmark doing against international commitments for protected areas?Presenter: Professor Neil Burgess, CMECHead of Science – UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Department of Biology
C E N T E R F O R M A C R O E C O L O G Y E V O L U T I O N A N D C L I M AT ED E PA RT M E N T O F B I O L O G Y
U N I V E R S I T Y O F C O P E N H A G E N
Role of UNEP-WCMCMissionTo evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making
UNEP’s specialist Biodiversity Assessment Centre– Provide the data and information that supports decision-making– Strengthen capacity for biodiversity decision-making
Global mandate: United Nations List of Protected Areas “713 (XXVII). Establishment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations of a list of national parks and equivalent reserves.”www.unep-wcmc.org
2010 - CBD Cop 10 : Aichi Target 11By 2020, at least 17 per cent of terrestrial and inland water areas, and 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, especially areas of particular importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services, are conserved through effectively and equitably managed, ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, and integrated into the wider landscapes and seascapes.
Tracking progress towards protected area targets
CBD Aichi 2020 Biodiversity targetsMillennium Development GoalsRio +20 Sustainable Development Goals
• World Database of Protected Areas
• Registry of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas
• Effectiveness of reserve management
In this talk we will cover....
• Protected Area coverage (land and sea)
• Protected Area effectiveness
• Evidence for protected areas delivering conservation outcomes (species and habitats)
1962UN List of National Parks and Equivalent Reserves
1981World Database on Protected Areas established
2003UN List Mandate Renewed and updated to include WDPA
2010ProtectedPlanet.netOnline data portal for WDPA
1975IUCN Categories system began to be developed
1994Six IUCN Categories published
2008Revised IUCN categoriespublished
2014World Parks Congress, Sydney? Updated UN List published? WDPA updated to include Management/Governance data? 2014 Protected Planet report
World Database of Protected Areas
Global Protected Area coverage
Target 17% of land and 10% of seaAchievement: 13% of land and c.2-3% of sea (205,000 sites)
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Danish Dataset in the WDPA provided via Danish government and EEA
International sites
Denmark and Tanzania
Denmark Protected Area growth over recent decades
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Marine
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Attributes of Danish protected areas reserves within the WDPA
Assignment of reserves to IUCN PA categories How complete is the Danish data
Measurement of management input within reserves (PAME)
Common reporting format
Thousands of indicators
45 headline indicators
Diverse systems
Many data-sources
‘translation’ developed
WCPA Framework Elements
6 framework elements
Single database
What data do we have on reserves effectiveness?
Around 7,000 of 200,000 sites have been assessed
How are countries responding to CBD PAME targets?
44
47
30
16
64
60+ 30-59 10-29 1-9 No assessments
CBD - Global target 60% coverage. Only a few countries have met this. Mainly in Africa
Growth in number of PAs assessed in terms of PAME
• Decline in rate of new assessments 2009-2012 is an artefact of lack of data collection not lack of assessments
•Are there other Danish tine series data within and outside protected areas?
•Where is that data stored?
•Is it accessible?•Is there effectiveness data as well (staff, budgets, management plans)
•Could a study systematically look at PA outcomes in Denmark compared to similar non protected land and considering the management inputs that have been made???
Conclusions-international perspective
• Denmark is meeting CBD PA coverage targets on land• And is also meeting them in the marine environment• There is bias in reserve location to marine and forests –
some other habitats not well represented (and species)• PAME will have to be reported within coming rounds to
CBD. Are systems in place in management authorities?• Are systems in place in NGOs?• Q1: Do reserves deliver more conservation than similar –
unreserved – land in Denmark?• Q2: Do better managed reserves do better than poorly